1. Welcome to Lincoln, Mike Riley! Are the Cornhuskers going to go 9/10-4 this year again?
Brian Towle: Well, good lord willing, we hope so. It's not so much that 9-4 is a bad thing, as most people would bronze your statue if you did that in places like, say, Lawrence or West Lafayette. The thing is, when you're 8-1 heading into your final 3 games that you're either even or favored in, and you need a miracle comeback against Iowa to stave off the 0-fer, that's the problem.
Nebraska's best victory last year was a tossup: either Miami or Rutgers.